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    • Free Book No. 5 – Presto The Definitive Guide

      Free Book No. 5 – Presto The Definitive Guide

      I was always an avid reader, maxing out the number of books allowed for checkout from the library with each visit. And if I had the time I would still read as many books as way back when I was a teen. Now my boys read about that much, and I can not keep up. Back then I would have never thought that I ever pivot to writing books. Although my school reports already went long, and I could easily write dozens of pages in a report. Hopefully without too much rambling 😉

      Wow … re-reading the stuff you wrote not long ago again and again is exhausting. But it is one of the steps necessary when you write a book. And by my own count I am now at book number five: Presto: The Definitive Guide

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    • Kotlin Improvements for Polyglot-Maven

      Just a quick note today. I released a new version of polyglot-maven with a significant refactor to the Kotlin dialect. Its much more idiomatic Kotlin code now and should results in better IDE support and features. Check it out!

    • Android Maven Plugin 4.6.0 Released

      Is it really nearly two years ago. Time certainly flies. My focus these days certainly has shifted away from Android development, but of course that does not mean I should let down the users of the plugin. So here it is .. a new release of the Android Maven Plugin.

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    • Maven Repository Provisioner 1.4.0

      My trusty Maven Repository Provisioner needed a bit more attention again thanks to some pull requests from users. To make it worth the effort of cutting a release I decided to throw in some further updates.

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    • Kotlin for polyglot-maven

      In the Java/JVM and especially also in the Android eco-system the Kotlin programming language has found many friends and fans. It even is moving into native and web realms these days. With it popularity soaring it spreads out further and it was only natural to bump into the most widely used build system on the JVM – Apache Maven.

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    • ksoap-android 3.6.4

      So it seems a whole bunch of users are still in a situation where the use SOAP webservices and my trusty ksoap-android project is of service to them. Great!

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    • Recent Maven Wrapper Updates

      Within the last while I have ended up doing a whole bunch of merges on the maven-wrapper and the related takari-maven-plugin. In the end (fingers crossed) we are now at maven-wrapper: 0.5.4 and takari-maven-plugin:0.7.5. That includes a whole bunch of great changes …

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